Dance for Two: Essays - Softcover

"Alan Lightman is one of our most consistently fascinating writers."
--Annie Dillard

"Lightman has an uncanny way of presenting complex concepts with familiar examples and analogies--so that readers will both deepen their appreciation of science and their love of fine literature."
--Stephen Jay Gould

"Novelist, essayist, physicist, and master of prose style, Alan Lightman continues his extraordinary voyage into unexplored regions of life, time, and the imagination. Dance for Two is a compelling book of flawless prose from a unique mind."
--Richard Preston

In a compilation of essays written over the past two decades, the author of Einstein's Dreams reflects on the dependence of a ballerina on the laws of physics, the unscientific nature of discovery, the mystery of human flight without propellers, and the scientists' choices between theorizing and tinkering. Original.